On Monday, June 27, 2011 15:57:21 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 27-06-2011 02:54, Hans Verkuil escreveu:
> > On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 20:33:34 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >> Media subsystem workshop 2011 - Prague - Oct 24-26
> >>
> >> Since 2007, we're doing annual mini-summits for the media subsystem,
> >> in order to plan the new features that will be introduced there.
> >>
> >> Last year, during the Kernel Summit 2010, it was decided that the Kernel
> >> Summit 2011 format will be modified, in order to strength the interaction
> >> between the several sub-system mini-summits and the main Kernel Summit.
> >> If this idea works well, the next Kernel Summits will also follow the
> >> same format.
> >>
> >> So, some mini-summits were proposed to happen together with the Kernel
> >> Summit 2011. Among a few others, the Media subsystem was accepted to be
> >> held with this year's Kernel Summit.
> >>
> >> So, we'd like to announce that the Media subsystem workshop 2011 will
> >> happen together with the Kernel Summit 2011.
> >
> > Great!
> >
> >> The Media subsystem workshop is on early planning stages, but the idea
> >> is that we'll have an entire day to do the media discussions. We'll
> >> also planning to have workshop presentations inside the Kernel Summit
> >> 2011 with the workshop and Kernel Summit attendants present, where
> >> workshop results will be presented.
> >>
> >> So, I'd like to invite V4L, DVB and RC developers to submit proposals
> >> for the themes to be discussed. Please email me if you're interested
> >> on being invited for the event.
>
> (as you've replied in priv, I'm not c/c the ML, but, IMO, the better would
> be if you could write it to the ML as well).
Added the ML.
> >
> > It's terribly early for proposals (it's a fast moving subsystem), but I
> > think
> > one theme for the workshop is to take a good look at our V4L2 Spec and
> > decide
> > on and fix any ambiguities that remain.
>
> Agreed. I'd say more: we should look not only at the V4L part of the spec,
> but also
> at the DVB part. I hope that we can get interests from some DVB developers to
> be
> there also.
Indeed.
> > I hope to continue my work on
> > v4l2-compliance and as part of that I keep a list of such problems.
>
> Yes, a compliance tool is a good thing to do.
Too bad there isn't a single driver that complies :-)
> > Another, related, topic is to determine the overall state of the subsystem:
> > the good, the bad and the ugly :-) And to prioritize work accordingly.
>
> Good point.
>
> > One thing I hope to work on this year is to clean up drivers and use the
> > compliance tool to make them behave consistently. I'd be happy to present
> > results of testing for a wide range of hardware at the workshop.
>
> Seems a good topic for me.
Regards,
Hans
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